'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I just forced myself to finish A Pale View of Hills. How could the author of my default favorite novel (The Remains of the Day) have written such a dull, flat, pointless first novel? That was still critically acclaimed? I now wonder what the hell I saw in TROTD. Surely, my tastes have become more refined since I read that book three times and loved it in high school, right?
Maybe I just don't care about Japan. Lost in Translation didn't do it for me either.
I have the paperback copies of the Shakespeare plays I like, with my marginalia and production notes and stuff, in addition to the Riverside.
It's sort of my LOTR approach - the Big Red Book for the shelf, and the cheap paperbacks for carrying, taking notes, and reading.
Woo-hoo! My Vampire People just arrived!
There is a poll on baord usage being discussed, please go here for more information - msbelle "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Aug 3, 2007 7:52:20 am PDT
Hey DebetEsse- The best Shakespeare set, if you can find it, is the out of print Everyman edition in three volumes. Look for a used copy. They are portable and readable, very convenient but nicer than paperbacks.
So my sister was over - we talked a bit about WTVPPLTL She bought it but hasn't started it. However, the review that said you can't meet friends on the intenet now, she thought was , well, wrong. she only found her tribe on the net in the last year or so.
A professor of literature I know who is also interested in the history of cooking, recommends the following:
Egg Pies, Moss Cakes, and Pigeons Like Puffins DiMarco, Vincent
According to the blurb: "In this comprehensive and historically rich study, author Vincent DiMarco shares three original, never before published cookery manuscripts from eighteenth century England. Taken from the author's private collection, the manuscripts contain over five hundred recipes in their original form, but DiMarco further enhances the text with expert commentary and revitalizes one hundred of the recipes for today's kitchen with modern instructions."
Not my personal area of interest, but I suspect it may appeal to some Buffistas. The link is to a $6.00 ebook version; there is a printed version out there as well.
Is he the guy I heard on NPR talking about what it was like to eat one of those songbirds with the towel over your head?
Dunno. Just passing along a rec from I guy I really trust on this sort of thing. Don't really know anything about either the book or the author, other than if my source recommends it, it is probably a sterling example of its kind.
three original, never before published cookery manuscripts from eighteenth century England
oooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Thanks for the link, Gar.